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What you are seeing in the picture above is the Diesel Social Kitchen. If you click the image it will take you to Scavolini’s website where you can drag and zoom to get a better look. (This is image number six in the slide show!) What you don’t see in this photo is the beautiful antique (-style?) rotary pay-phone hanging on the wall off the left of the picture. Note, however, the bottles on the countertop, the metal kitchen cart and the steel and glass cabinets.

This design is inspiring, and not only did I want to find some of the items that decorated this kitchen, I also wanted to find some pieces that I would add to my own kitchen if I had this one.

Since I saw a picture of this kitchen with the antique phone, I had to find one myself. Here is a pay-phone you can incorporate into a black theme. This one is from Nostalgia Factory Outlet for $69.95 and other colors are pink, red and chrome!

There are also authentic antique pay-phones out there if you know where to look. Some are listed on eBay.

There are numerous antique bottles that would look good in your kitchen at antique shops, flea markets, and online. (My parents once had a pretty big collection of vintage bottles – many collected at estate auctions.) I found this awesome vinegar bottle on Etsy.

If you need your bottles to function as well as looking pretty and you just aren’t all that comfortable with reusing, there are plenty of fresh-from-the-factory kitchen accessories that would fit this theme.

(And while we’re talking about bottles, don’t forget about the Enlightening Bottles that can be used as lamps!)

Do you know what else I think might look nice in this awesome modern kitchen? Answer: A wrought iron or hammered steel pot rack like the one below. Imagine it with shiny copper and stainless steel pots hanging from it!

Another lovely piece that would fit well here is this $1,799.00 Crate and Barrel Exclusive Crockery Cabinet. Picture it filled with your best china, stoneware, and/or drinkware, or filled with your favorite accent pieces. I can just imagine a refurbished ice box or pie safe setting next to something like this.

How cool is this Adjustable Iron Table that I happened to come across at West Elm’s website? It is on sale for $764 and supposedly fits 4-5 people though it is hard to get a perspective from the picture.

Now if you look really close on the left side of the kitchen counter at the top of this post you will notice a bronze/gold robot. The only other place I could even find a mention of it was on the Penny Street Interiors blog where they mention finding it at a shop called A Trip To The Moon.

However, with some help pinning down the era this robot came from, I figured out that the metallic robot pictured is just a decorative replica of a “Smoking Robot” from the toy company Yonezawa in the 1950s. There are reproductions of the original toy out there that come in blue, green, grey and silver. Apparently, even the reproductions of these toys are hard to find in great working order, but TinToyArcade.com has this Grey Smoking Robot for $79.98.

I don’t know if they did this on purpose, but having a robot in the kitchen is a bit of a modern-day joke with restaurant owners and chefs, as there have actually been real robots developed to cook and help with cooking.

Another thing I love for this kitchen is an Aviator Style Kraken Alarm Clock from The Kraken Supply Shop ($49.99) — yes, you have to be 21 to look since this is on a rum website — but I love the retro modern style. Note the little Spirit of St. Louis on the right of the clock.

And finally, what well-decorated kitchen would be finished without wall art? Here are some city and country ideas that I found appropriate for my dream Diesel Social Kitchen. I hope you’ve enjoyed and been inspired by it as much as I have! Leave a comment below with your own ideas!

Or how about these intriguing works by artist Laurie Meseroll that I found on Amazon? (You might love her blog, by the way.)

I especially like that last one — “Bunny Brew.”

As mentioned above, you don’t necessarily have to change your whole theme if you like any of these folksy decorations. They can stand alone and would make excellent conversation pieces if you have a way to tie them into another theme or match them with a style you already have going.

I especially like the idea of tying them in with some vintage prints or “French Provincial” designs. Here are a few ideas to get your mind working in that direction:

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